What is up with Nathan Chen?

Does anyone know what is going on with this wonderful kid? I know it was stated that he was injured at his last GP but, I just didn't believe it. At Sectionals he looked a bit off, no passion very business like. Also, there didn't seem to be a coach anywhere near him. Whatever his injury is it must be affecting his Lutz, which he left off his program completely.

In his first GP he looked to be invincible, even by men twice his age.

Well, whatever it is, he is about to find out how strong he is.

Nathan, if you read these crazy boards I want to wish you the best and I look forward to your recuperation and I hope to see you at Nationals in top form.

It's amazing he chose to do a double flip rather than something else. He had to do something to fill that slot and it really looks like injury is still troublesome so doing triple lutz is not possible with what the mechanics of that jump demande with the edge takeoff from the outside so I guess flip is the highest double he could do because he used up his double axels and apparently lutz is not possible so he went with flip. Better to do a double flip than than nothing or double toe or loop or salchow. But almost at first I think he meant to do a triple lutz but doubled it and then becaus of an edge error it was judged a double flip!! That was the first thought but then I just thought of his injury. No 3A no 3lz must be a problem recovering.

Well if that's the case, it's better that he water down his programs and lose a few competitions then harming himself too much in the long run. Nathan's only 13 years old -- he won't qualify for Worlds until 2015, so no point in forcing him to overwork himself for the sake of a few competitions. He's already won the junior title, so I don't think he has anything to prove right now.